In My Eyes He Was a Man”

Bibliographic Data

ID12796830
AuthorsShaherzad Ahmadi (0000-0003-3093-8385, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume14
Issue2
Pages174-192
Publication date2018-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Middle East Women s Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1552-5864 • E-ISSN: 1558-9579
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/15525864-6680218
OpenAlexW2883050069
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited30

During the Pahlavi period in Iran (1925–79), poor and working-class families were more likely to expect young sons to work to support the household. These boys, in turn, were more autonomous. Middle-class families, on the other hand, protected and controlled boys. Researchers have assumed that religious zealotry was the primary inspiration for boys to enlist in the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, ignoring the ways in which class inflected boyhood. While religious fervor may have been a motivation for some of the poor and working-class Iranian boys (between ten and fourteen) who enlisted, the expectation that they work took precedence. Moreover, at least some of these boys were eager to participate in war-front masculine homosociality rather than remain in feminized domestic spaces. This study analyzes biographies, census data, newspaper accounts, and original oral history interviews

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